Table 2.

Chl content per cell, Chl a/Chl b ratios, and LHC protein amount in C. reinhardtii wild type (WT), tla1 mutant and tla1 strains complemented with the TLA1 gene (tla1-comp1 and tla1-comp2)

Strain	Chl (×10−15 mol/cell)	Chl a/Chl b ratio	Lhcb amount (%)
WT (cw15)	3.2	2.6	100
tla1	1.1	6.0	22
tla1-comp1	2.9	2.7	65
tla1-comp2	3	2.8	80

Quantification of the LHC band from the scanned western blots was achieved with image processing software (ImageJ). Statistical error (±SD) was <10% of the values shown